Category Short Stories

Short Story: Jack and the Candlestick

I have a short story up at Marrow Magazine titled JACK AND THE CANDLESTICK. It’s about a ghost stuck in a candlestick, a medieval executioner, and a peasant girl. There’s also an interview with me about the story that you…

Short Story: The More You Know

I have a short story in Raritan. It’s called The More You Know, and it’s about a ghost who’s also a valley girl. Excerpt: Being a ghost is so bogus. Like, what is a ghost even able to do, you…

Short Story: Breaking In

I have a short story in the Winter/Spring 2020 issue of Alaska Quarterly Review. It’s called Breaking In. Excerpt: The ghost horses run at night. They’ve reverted to roaming the earth in troops, their gallop a rumble preceding trains and…

Short Story: The Pigeon Carrier

I have a short story at the Atticus Review. It’s called The Pigeon Carrier. Excerpt: The man wore a holey tee-shirt and a trucker hat over greasy hair. In one hand, he was talking on a cell phone the size…

Short Story: Hand To Mouth

I have a creepy little story up at Flash Fiction Magazine. Someone once told me this story permanently changed how they saw gloves. Read Hand To Mouth.

Short Story In 2019 Best Small Fictions

I’m excited that my short story “Sleep Disturbance” will be included in the 2019 Best Small Fictions Anthology. “Sleep Disturbance” was published last year in The Forge Literary Magazine. You can read it here.

Short Story: Sleep Disturbance

I wrote a short-short for The Forge Literary Magazine. It’s called Sleep Disturbance: They say we’re primates, but you looked like a bear as you padded through the blue light of my neighbourhood, naked. More Here.

Short Story: Deluge in Salomé

I’m so pleased to be part of Salomé’s July issue. My very short story is called Deluge. Here’s the first two lines: The woman’s personality wouldn’t stay inside her. She vomited it into the corner of the literary gathering, a…

Short Story: Murmur

My short story Murmur is up on Every Day Fiction. It’s about a ghost. Excerpt: She came in with the rain, through an open window. It was the house of a young family. The ghost, whose name had been Amaya,…

Short Story: Flatten, Poke, and Blow

Hey, check it out! I have a short story up in LitnImage. It’s called Flatten, Poke, and Blow. Excerpt: Judith’s parents’ barn is full of wooden spools. There are dozens of them wound with rope as thick as tree branches.…